When the World Feels Heavy
When parenting feels overwhelming, maintaining your own emotional stability is key to supporting your child.
Join us on this evidence-based video series features Dr. Dave Anderson sharing practical, real-time strategies to help parents and caregivers manage parenting stress, recognize youth distress, and navigate difficult family conversations.
Dr. Dave Anderson delivers realistic, skills-based tools drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and behavioral parent training.
Caregivers will learn how to reduce burnout through sustainable self-care while discovering how their own emotional regulation directly shapes child behavior. The series guides parents through spotting the subtle signs of trauma or grief in youth, prioritizing emotional support over correction, and leading calm, age-appropriate conversations about disturbing world events.
Key Series Takeaways:
- Master real-time stress management to improve immediate parenting responses.
- Identify subtle behavioral cues of distress, trauma, and grief across developmental stages.
- Navigate difficult topics confidently using active listening and validation techniques.
- Prioritize emotional regulation to reduce escalation and reinforce home stability.
- Implement sustainable self-care practices that protect against long-term caregiver burnout.
- Parents will leave equipped to build resilience, reduce anxiety, and strengthen lasting family connections.
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Parent Self-Care and Emotional Maintenance
Children don’t always express distress in obvious ways.
In this session, Dr. Dave Anderson will help parents recognize how emotional challenges show up through behavior, mood, and daily routines.
Using a practical, skills-based approach, he will outline how caregivers can respond in ways that...
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What to Watch For and How to Help Youth Experiencing Trauma and Grief
Children don’t always express distress in obvious ways.
In this session, Dr. Dave Anderson will help parents recognize how emotional challenges show up through behavior, mood, and daily routines.
Using a practical, skills-based approach, he will outline how caregivers can respond in ways that...
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How to Talk to Kids and Teens about Disturbing World Events
Kids and teens are constantly taking in information, but they don’t always know how to process it.
In this session, Dr. Dave Anderson will guide parents on how to have calm, productive conversations that help children feel informed without becoming overwhelmed.
Drawing on his experience worki...